Patents by Inventor Isao Kato

Isao Kato has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20120112594
    Abstract: A stator core includes a cylindrical yoke and teeth that are disposed in an inner circumference surface of the yoke along its circumferential direction and that are subjected to magnetic flux from the rotor of the rotating electrical device. The teeth include a trapezoidal tooth that has a trapezoidal cross section that is taken vertically along a central axis of the yoke and an oddly shaped tooth of which a tip section has the same shape as the trapezoidal tooth and a base section from the tip section to the yoke has a different shape from the trapezoidal tooth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya SANO, Isao KATO
  • Publication number: 20120023358
    Abstract: In a communication system in which data is transmitted and received in synchronization with a clock signal, a peripheral device cannot transfer data to a host device when the host device stops outputting the clock signal and thus the peripheral device cannot promptly transmit an interrupt request to the host device. A peripheral device transmits an interrupt request to a host device using a signal line for a clock signal when the clock signal output has been stopped. The host device receives the interrupt request, and resumes outputting a clock signal to enable data transmission and reception to and from the peripheral device. This enables the peripheral device to transmit an interrupt request to the host device promptly when the output of the clock signal from the host device has been stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro NAKAMURA, Tadashi ONO, Isao KATO
  • Publication number: 20110234031
    Abstract: A stator for a rotary electrical machine, includes a stator core in a cylinder shape and having plural magnetic pole teeth, which are arranged in a circumferential direction of the stator while keeping a distance therebetween and each of which protrudes in a radial direction of the stator core, a coil configured with a conductive wire wound around each of the magnetic pole teeth, an insulating bobbin provided between the coil and the corresponding magnetic pole tooth, and an electric power supply portion arranged axially outwardly of the stator core, electrically connecting the coil with an outside of the stator, and including an outgoing wire, which corresponds to a portion of at least one of a winding start and a winding end of the conductive wire being extended by a predetermined length, and an isolating member having a groove portion for accommodating and guiding the corresponding outgoing wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Isao KATO
  • Publication number: 20110182216
    Abstract: An interrupt request cannot be transmitted while a data read command or a data write command transmitted from a host device to a slave device is being processed in a half-duplex mode. Disclosed are a host device and a slave device that are set to a full-duplex mode by temporarily switching the communication direction of a first transmission channel or a second transmission channel after completing transmission and reception of a predetermined number of data packets in the half-duplex mode. The host device or the slave device can thus transmit an interrupt request, such as a request associated with a wait status or a busy status, to its communication target using the temporary full-duplex mode. This enables the host device or the slave device to process such an interrupt request during high-speed data transfer performed in the half-duplex mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventors: Tadashi Ono, Isao Kato, Hideyuki Yamada, Shinichiro Nishioka, Hiroshi Suenaga, Tsutomu Sekibe
  • Publication number: 20110103224
    Abstract: A data communication system for starting transmission and reception of target data for processing upon recognition that switching between communication modes is completed. The data communication system includes a master communication device and a slave communication device that continuously perform, at a time of switching from half-duplex communication to full-duplex communication, (i) a handshake using a directional control code indicating the switching and a preamble code indicating completion of the switching and (ii) a handshake using the preamble code and an acknowledge code indicating receipt of the preamble code, whereby each of the devices recognizes that the switching between communication modes by the opposite device is completed and starts transmission and reception of the target data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Shinichiro Nishioka, Hiroshi Suenaga, Tsutomu Sekibe, Isao Kato, Tadashi Ono, Hideyuki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20110091686
    Abstract: A low temperature co-fired ceramic material includes a SiO2—BaO—Al2O3-based primary component, and, as secondary components, 0.044 to 0.077 parts by weight of iron in terms of Fe2O3 and 0.30 to 0.55 parts by weight of zirconium in terms of ZrO2 relative to 100 parts by weight of the SiO2—BaO—Al2O3-based primary component. The SiO2—BaO—Al2O3-based primary component preferably includes 47% to 60% by weight of SiO2, 20% to 42% by weight of BaO, and 5% to 30% by weight of Al2O3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Yokoyama, Yuzo Kawada, Akira Baba, Hiromichi Kawakami, Isao Kato
  • Patent number: 7774508
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus that transmits error information about setting of a block size to a host device includes an interface section that transmits and receives a command, a response and data to and from the host device. When the data is a predetermined length or more, the interface section executes multi-block transmission. Moreover, the electronic apparatus includes a data buffer, and a storage section that stores information about a block size. When the interface section receives a block size setting command transmitted from the host device and the block size is larger than a capacity of the data buffer, it transmits a response including error information about incapability of accepting the block size at the time which has a predetermined relation to the block size setting command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Nakamura, Tatsuya Adachi, Kazuya Iwata, Isao Kato
  • Patent number: 7701053
    Abstract: An electronic component has a portion adjacent to a surface of a base to which elements are mounted is immersed into a liquid resin or semi-solid resin such that an element surface of the base to which the elements are mounted is not immersed and in which the resin is then hardened. This causes a gap to be disposed between the hardened resin and the element surface of the base, such that a cover supported by some of the elements is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Nishizawa, Norio Sakai, Isao Kato
  • Publication number: 20100023678
    Abstract: When an access device accesses a nonvolatile memory device, the nonvolatile memory device or the access device detects or calculates a temperature T of the nonvolatile memory device. A temperature-adaptive control part of the nonvolatile memory device controls an access rate to a nonvolatile memory on the basis of the temperature T. Accordingly, the control part controls the rate so that the temperature T of the nonvolatile memory devices cannot exceed a limit temperature Trisk. In this manner, a nonvolatile memory system can eliminate a risk of a burn when ejecting the semiconductor memory device and can read and write data at a high speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: Masahiro Nakanishi, Isao Kato, Masayuki Toyama, Tatsuya Adachi, Hirofumi Nakagaki, Takuji Maeda
  • Publication number: 20100017560
    Abstract: It has been difficult for an access device to obtain a remaining capacity of a memory from a nonvolatile memory device having a plurality of interfaces. A capacity parameter generation part 127 and a capacitor parameter notification part 128 are provided in a memory controller 120. When data is written or deleted, the capacity parameter generation part 127 generates a capacity parameter based on a physical region management table 125. The capacity parameter notification part 128 sends the generated capacity parameter to an access device 200. The access device 200 obtains a remaining capacity of the nonvolatile memory device 100 from the received capacity parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Ono, Masahiro Nakanishi, Isao Kato
  • Publication number: 20100005226
    Abstract: An access device 100 includes an access speed information part 112 for informing an access speed required for data recording by the access device 100 to a nonvolatile memory device 200. The nonvolatile memory device includes an access condition determination part 212 for determining an access condition required for meeting the informed access speed and an access area determination unit 213 for determining an access area according to the determined access condition. The access device 100 informs the required access speed to the nonvolatile memory device 200 in advance so that the access condition determination part 212 and the access area determination part 213 in the nonvolatile memory device 200 realize data recording which meets the access speed informed in advance upon the data recording. Thus, it is possible to access all the nonvolatile memory devices at a desired speed regardless of difference in characteristics of the recording speed of each of the nonvolatile memory devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuji Maeda, Toshiyuki Honda, Masahiro Nakanishi, Tadashi Ono, Tatsuya Adachi, Isao Kato
  • Publication number: 20090319587
    Abstract: An access device 150 designates a file ID for directly specifying file data to a nonvolatile memory device 120A at the time of writing file data. A file physical management part 105 in the nonvolatile memory device 120A includes a file physical management table 106 for managing, such as corresponding relationship between a physical block number of a nonvolatile memory 110 and the file ID and a block status for identifying whether the physical block is used or unused. Since a process of detecting an unused cluster by the access device 150 side is eliminated, a response in recording data can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Nakanishi, Isao Kato, Toshiyuki Honda
  • Patent number: 7610427
    Abstract: A functional module card and a host apparatus according to the present invention can constitute the digital broadcasting receiver apparatus. The functional module card includes a card controller and a tuner section. The tuner section inputs a digital broadcasting signal, generates a transport stream (referred to as a TS hereinafter) and a TS clock for transferring the TS, and directly transfers the TS and the TS clock to a decoder and descrambler of the host apparatus via a bus according to the TS clock. A data transfer method for transferring data between the card controller and the host controller of the host apparatus is a master-slave data transfer method in which the host controller operates as a master apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Nakamura, Isao Kato, Tatsuya Adachi, Kazuya Iwata
  • Publication number: 20090250258
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention is a wiring substrate including an insulating base material layer, a metal layer on the insulating base material layer, and a solder resist laminated to the most superficial surface of the wiring substrate above the insulating base material layer, wherein the metal layer has a loop shaped pattern formed along the edge of the insulating base material layer, and the solder resist is formed in such a way that one portion of the pattern is exposed from, and one portion covered with, an extremity of the solder resist on the edge side, along the pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Warigaya, Kenji Hisamatsu, Isao Kato
  • Patent number: 7436898
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) card capable of a high-speed data transmission to/from a data transmission apparatus having low processing capability. A controlling section generates a data packet by adding management information including information regarding a data length of the data packet, and divides the data packet to generate data blocks. The data length of the data block is designated from the data transmission apparatus. When the data blocks which compose the single data packet are sent to the transmission apparatus a communicating section sends an interrupt signal to the data transmission apparatus if the data block including the management information is to be sent, and does not send the interrupt signal to the data transmission apparatus if a data block not including the management information is to be sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Kato, Tatsuya Adachi, Kazuya Iwata, Tetsushi Kasahara, Seiji Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7403139
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus reads a digital data stream including a video signal and/or an audio signal outputted from an external apparatus according to a transmission clock different from a clock for the data stream, and outputs the video signal and/or audio signal without causing any discontinuity. The electronic apparatus includes a sample rate converter that rate-converts a predetermined volume of the audio signal in synchronization with a constant sampling clock, and changes a number of samples to be outputted, based on a data volume of an audio signal outputted by the electronic apparatus and a data volume of an audio signal transmitted from the external apparatus or transmittable from the external apparatus to the electronic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuhei Sasakura, Tatsuya Adachi, Isao Kato, Kazuya Iwata, Naoki Ejima, Seiji Nakamura, Yoshihisa Inagaki
  • Publication number: 20080028883
    Abstract: A robot arm structure for a carrying robot is capable of carrying a load in a wide range under restrictions on robot arm motions. A second arm 38 is joined to an upper link 35, a third arm 39 is joined to the second arm 38, and a fourth arm 40 is joined to the third arm 39. A holding unit mounted on the fourth arm 40 can be moved in a wide range through the angular displacement of the second arm 38 to the fourth arm 40 even in a state where a first arm 36 is maintained at a predetermined position relative to a bed 33. Thus a load can be moved in a wide range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Inada, Yuji Maeguchi, Isao Kato, Tadashi Isomura
  • Patent number: 7320176
    Abstract: An assembly device includes: a push-in unit provided in a vertically movable tool base to push a ceramic catalyst carrier together with a support mat into a recession of a shaping die; a first and second pressing units for pressing both end portions of the mat from side faces to curve them along an arc-shaped upper surface of the carrier; pressure rollers provided at the both pressing units to press the both end portions toward the carrier; a tape presser in the push-in unit for pressing an adhesive tape to an upper surfaces of engagement portions of the depression and projection in a gap formed between the both rollers and operating with the push-in unit in pushing the carrier and mat into the recession of the shaping die; and a push-up unit provided on a bottom of the recession to push up the carrier and mat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sugiyama, Isao Kato
  • Publication number: 20070177736
    Abstract: A functional module card and a host apparatus according to the present invention can constitute the digital broadcasting receiver apparatus. The functional module card includes a card controller and a tuner section. The tuner section inputs a digital broadcasting signal, generates a transport stream (referred to as a TS hereinafter) and a TS clock for transferring the TS, and directly transfers the TS and the TS clock to a decoder and descrambler of the host apparatus via a bus according to the TS clock. A data transfer method for transferring data between the card controller and the host controller of the host apparatus is a master-slave data transfer method in which the host controller operates as a master apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Seiji Nakamura, Isao Kato, Tatsuya Adachi, Kazuya Iwata
  • Publication number: 20070145151
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus that transmits error information about setting of a block size to a host device without making a design of the host device complicated and a control method thereof, are provided. The electronic apparatus of the present invention has: an interface section that transmits/receives a command, a response and data to/from the host device and when the data is a predetermined length or more, executes multi-block transmission; a data buffer; and a storage section that stores information about a block size, wherein when the interface section receives a block size setting command transmitted from the host device and the block size is larger than a capacity of the data buffer, it transmits a response including error information about incapability of accepting the block size at the time which has a predetermined relation to the block size setting command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Seiji Nakamura, Tatsuya Adachi, Kazuya Iwata, Isao Kato